Thank you for sticking with this! I know the new movie came out and everything... this (3 years later) if for the faithful readers that requested it. I'm so sorry I never finished it! Without going into too much detail there were some issues with various aspects of life... work/men/rent... NONE of which are any better but I've come to realise that there are more important things! I love you guys for reading and reviewing.

Previously in The Forgotten Curse...

"Captain Sparrow." Jack said, "A problem with marriage you say? Well then, I have a proposition for y'. How about, the lady steps forward," Her father was about to stop her, but Jack swung his pistol around absently, and Rosaline stepped out, "A wise move," Jack said approvingly, "And now, the next part of my proposition." He stuck his hand into one of his many coat pockets, and pulled something out.

Marti saw something glint in his hand,

"Bloody hell!" She gasped, forgetting herself. "This wasn't in the plan," Bill hissed at her to be quiet.

Then Jack did something that not even Savannah would have expected, if she was there. He knelt down on one knee, right in front of Rosaline,

"Roz," He said, grinning at the shock on her face, "D'y fancy marryin' me?"

A silence decended on the room. Rosaline's mother awoke temporarily, glanced around at the dumbfounded expressions on her family and friends' faces and decided it would be in her best interest to feint again.

Rosaline herself was as speechless as anybody. She looked from Jack, to Ana and Elizabeth, and back to Jack again. Her mouth opened and closed a few times before any words managed to escape.

"Yes." She whispered. Jack cocked an eyebrow and put a hand to his ear,

"What was that luv?" He asked, a grin spreading across his features,

Rosaline plucked the ring from his hand and slipped it onto her finger. "I said yes."

Jack stared blankly for a second, before his mind caught up with him. He looked up at the room full of people, all stood with their jaws at their ankles.

"She said yes!" Marti screeched, leaping onto Bill's back and punching a fist into the air.

"She said yes?" Rosaline's mother mumbled, confused and barely conscious,

"She said yes!" Jack yelled triumphantly. Suddenly, a series of events occurred in quick succession. Jack whisked Rosaline off her feet and kissed her; Rosaline's father lunged at the pair of them only to be fought off by his new son-in-law's half sister; Bill, Will, Elizabeth and Ana Maria simultaneously realised that they hadn't thought the plan through much past this point; and every candle and lamp in the room flickered and died.

Plunged into confusion and darkness, madness ensued. Jack held onto his new fiance tightly and navigated his way through the screaming party guests toward's the servants entrance.

Once they had escaped the ball, they found themselves in a dimly lit kitchen. A scullery maid and a page boy stared at them in astonishment as a merry band of pirates stumbled through the door behind them.

"I can't believe you said yes!" Martina hissed, throwing her arms around Rosaline's neck and kissing her soundly on each cheek.

"Who's idea was it to turn out the lights?" Will asked,

"Stroke of genius if you ask me." Bill added. No one spoke for a moment. "Anyone?" Bill searched everyone's faces and got no response. They all quickly did a mental body count and found no one missing. "Well someone must have done it!"

"Are you going to stand here talking all night? Or make your dramatic escape while you still can?" A small but forceful voice spoke from behind them. The group parted to reveal a little girl, dressed in a very fine dress, with a familiar glint in her eye.

"Well I'll be a-"

"I'd prefer it if you left out the profanities whilst addressing my daughter." Savannah stood in the open doorway that led into the back entrance of the stables. She turned to the pair of servants still left in the corner of the room. "Do excuse the intrusion... You can return to your previous activities as soon as we leave." Savannah turned back to the pirates. "Elena does have a point you know. Some one in there is bound to have a match."

Jack was shaking his head in bewilderment, "How did you...? When did she...?"

"Every other door to the ballroom has been locked and sealed, rather tightly actually." Savannah said dismissively.

Elena pulled several bolts across the door behind her and padlocked it securely. She pocketed the key and pushed through the group to join her mother in the doorway.

Jack found his voice at last. "Savannah..."

"No Jack."

There was an awkward silence while the two 'friends' shared a moment of realisation. Jack nodded, resigned. "Have a nice life luv." He looked down to Elena, "And you, you keep an eye on your mad mother."

Elena grinned, with a kind of happiness that Jack had never seen in her mother. "I'll try." She said. Savannah gripped her daughter's shoulders and the pair of them disappeared around the corner.

"Jack!" Savannah's voice rang through the echoey building.

"What?"

"Those doors won't hold them in forever."

The crew glanced at one another, hearing shouts and screams from next door. Without taking another moment of deliberation they started to run.

They ran through the stables and out onto the backstreets. There was no sign of Savannah and Elena, but none of the crew expected to see either of them ever again. Jack held Rosaline's hand tightly as they ran, but they needn't have hurried. It would be a long time before anyone in the ballroom worked out just where the candles had all gone, or indeed before they worked out why no one could hear them banging on the doors and windows.

"I 'av t'say luv, you had me worried for a minute there." Jack said to Rosaline, as their feet landed on the familiar decking of the Black Pearl.

"Captain Jack Sparrow? Worry? Well I'll never." Rosaline teased him, wrapping her arms around his neck again.

"So what d'ye say to a summer wedding?" Jack asked, "Sun... sea... sand..."

"...Rum..."

"Well I was thinking of changing me ways to be honest luv, but if you insist..." Rosaline caught the glint in her pirate's eyes and laughed.

"Don't you dare change a thing. I love you just the way you are." And with that, Jack swept her off her feet. Rosaline whisked the hat off his head and dropped it onto her own. The sight of his lady in his hat brought quite a different glint to his eyes.

"Ana Maria!" He yelled, "Take us somewhere... exciting."

Ana Maria laughed, shaking her head, "Anything more specific Captain?" Jack was already walking towards his cabin.

"D'you know what luv?" He said, turning at the doorway to look at his crew. "I don't care."

The door closed on the pair of them, and Martina could swear that several stars in the sky grew that little bit brighter. As the crew went about their business, couldn't help grinning at the way things had worked out. Intent on joining Ana Maria at the helm to see the coast line fade into the distance, she turned around but found her way blocked by the ever persistent figure of Clay.

His babbling started almost instantly, and Marti found herself searching for a way to shut him up. She found one. It had been well tried and tested by her half brother, who had found it to be a rather productive way of silencing the opposite sex.

An hour later, Marti joined Ana Maria at the helm.

"You really going to leave the Pearl Ana?" Marti asked, shaking her hair out and tying it back with a bit of cord from the rigging ropes.

"I had intended on leaving." Ana said, "But with our Captain in his current state..."

"Lovesick. Preoccupied. Easily distracted." Marti suggested.

"Indeed. And his sister's no better."

"Excuse me?" Marti feigned innocence, but failed miserably. She whined desperately, "It was the only way to get him so shut up!"

Ana laughed, and elbowed her friend in the ribs. "You know what? I don't care."

The girls laughed, safe in the knowledge that wherever they ended up in the future, they would always be the crew of the Black Pearl. And they would always have the horizon.

Fin.

Done.

End.

3 years after I started it! Thanks reviewers and RIDICULOUSLY faithful readers. I love you guys. You bring warmth and light to my world forever. I hope that was enough for you. I'm not really in the PotC mindset anymore... but these guys needed some closure.

SM xxx